If I even so much as look at a product not reduced or with a brand label, my mini-me places her hands on her hips, cocks her head and says condescendingly: “Really, mother? Now that’s not on sale, is it.”
Laura Newell
With so much being made about how out of touch and unauthentic the offering is, I had to see for myself what the fuss was all about.
In a previously unspoken money-saving shift we sit on a wall outside the dance school clutching insulated mugs filled with homemade coffee.
Some of my favourite adult memories were made in the red dirt of WA’s bush, but we can’t pretend its all sunshine and roses when it comes to regional living.
The State Government announces the additional hours each year as if they are Santa’s elves gifting candy to children. But come the end of the jingle tills season, it’s back to being Scrooge.
How could I have dropped the ball so badly? (Spoiler: A boy was involved.) But with a little resilience, I went on to get a top-notch degree and pursue a career I’ve loved.
So, here are just a few examples of myths about domestic violence that have come across my desk this year and what the reality truly is.
As nice as it would be to have a gift-wrapped social media ban delivered by the Government that really works, that’s not what is being proposed.
Women need to be sitting up and taking note of what is said by those who would lead us on the issues that matter to us the most.
So refreshed by his visit to our lucky country was King Charles III that he says he will make a full return to overseas duties next year.
Women are being failed by systemic health inequalities — It’s a fact.
Fans of eco-cleaning brand Enjo have been told by local representatives this week that they too will be taking their operations ‘100 per cent online’ next month.
Put in terms any self-respecting Monty Python fan would understand, no, that parrot is not dead, it is not deceased. It could even be said that rumours of their demise were, in fact, greatly exaggerated.
Glengarry is one of only two private centres that I know of in WA that offer such specialist in-patient support. And news this week that it is to close is devastating. This is a lifeline that parents need.
Having watched that terrifying wall of flames bear down on us last November, this is one harm I’m prepared to put up with....
While zoo tickets might offer a charming day out, forgive me if I’m a bit sceptical of the giveaway as a truly philanthropic ‘cost of living’ measure.
Since leaving Britain more than a decade ago, I have at several points felt ashamed of my birth country when watching on from afar. But never more so than this weekend.
The choice between private or public schooling isn’t a straightforward one and it’s time for the cat’s bum brigade to invest in a decent face mask as none of us need to see that as we enjoy of morning coffee.
Now it’s no longer socially acceptable for women to flagellate themselves over their body shape and size, we’ve turned to home organisation.
When Telstra this week announced that they are hiking the price of mobile phone plans — particularly hitting battlers at the lower end of our economy — I found my inner narrative had changed considerably.
My point is that they should be entirely upfront about the fact that the cost to ratepayers has increased and not obfuscate that fact with complicated equations.
I may well be among only a small handful of people in Australia to have read the independent panel report into the phase out of live sheep exports by sea from cover-to-cover.
When did you last roll up your sleeve for a COVID or flu vaccine? Yeah, I thought so. Off you go, make that appointment now.
The return of mandatory national service for all 18-year-olds is UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s first policy pledge following his announcement of a snap election for July 4. Could Australia be next?
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